Add to this, that he is now within our reach.

He has lately returned to London, and is living quite alone at a private hotel.

For some reason which I am not acquainted with, he keeps away from Vange Abbey--the very place, as I should have thought, for a studious man." Penrose began to be interested.

"Have you been to the Abbey ?" he said.
"I made a little excursion to that part of Yorkshire, Arthur, not long since.

A very pleasant trip--apart from the painful associations connected with the ruin and profanation of a sacred place.